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whole stock of cash to amount to £2, 13s. 6d. Purchasing 

 a loaf and a piece of cheese as viaticum, he started for 

 a College at Oberlin, seven hundred miles off, where 

 Dr. Finney was President. He contrived to get to the 

 College without having ever begged. In the third year 

 he entered on the theological course, with the view of 

 becoming a missionary. He did not wish, and could never 

 agree, as a missionary, to hold an appointment from 

 an American Society, on account of the relation of the 

 American Churches to slavery ; therefore he applied to 

 the London Missionary Society. David had suggested 

 to his father that if Charles was to be a missionary, 

 he ought to direct his attention to China. Livingstone's 

 first missionary love had not become cold, and much 

 though he might have wished to have his brother in 

 Africa, he acted consistently on his old conviction that 

 there were enough of English missionaries there, and 

 that China had much more need. 



The Directors declined to appoint Charles Livingstone 

 without a personal visit, which he could not afford to 

 make. This circumstance led him to accept a pastorate in 

 New England, where he remained until 1857, when he 

 came to this country and joined his brother in the Zam- 

 besi Expedition. Afterwards he was appointed H. M. 

 Consul at Fernando Po, but being always delicate, he 

 succumbed to the climate of the country, and died a few 

 months after his brother, on his way home, in October 

 1873. Sir Bartle Frere, as President of the Royal 

 Geographical Society, paid a deserved tribute to his 

 affectionate and earnest nature, his consistent Christian 

 life, and his valuable help to Christian missions and the 

 African cause generally. 1 



Livingstone's relations with the Boers did not im- 

 prove. He has gone so fully into this subject in his 

 Missionary Travels that a very slight reference to it is all 



1 Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 1874, p. cxxviii. 



